America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning

Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by agumonkey on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:25PM (#15654556)

Google used to provide rare value: large scale of organization of information. They also philanthropically raised standards f the web: way better mail service, map service.

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Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by s73ver_ on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:43PM (#15655542)

They raised the standards, but you're delusional if you think they did it philanthropically. They did it because they thought they could get more info to sell ads.

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Re:America’s ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Is Really Just Beginning by agumonkey on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:08PM (#15655799)

Oh yeah, I missed an edit I never meant to say it was out of pure altruism. But it was a new kind of move at the time.

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